Custom overlay images would be great!

As long it doesn't slows the NG playlist down or makes it use more memory for us who don't want that feature.
I would be very dissapointed (and surprised) if columns_ui would be bloated with too much extended settings.

I think we can change the group back and text style in playlist view globe style.

use %_is_group% as the criterion,
here is my code:
$if(%_is_group%, $setstyle(back,$rgb(20,20,20)....) $setstyle(text,$rgb(150,150,150)
,
else)

that is a way to set the line color and back. and you can still change your group text style in group script use $rgb(,,) function.

I still confussed how $offset_colour and $calculate_blend_target works.

using $offset_colour($rgb(55,55,55),ff0000,12) return rgb code: 35, 35,135.

another question:

Could I have more than one keywords displayed in group?

when I use the code:
%album% %artist%
in group script, the ng playlist just groups both keywords.

so if I have a album with 10 various artists, the ng playlist will group 10 groups.

ofcourse I can use playlist filters to exclude that playlist, but I do really prefer the group head can show more information.

Bug? My artwork view in NG playlist refreshs after an interval of about one minute.
Is it normal? Or it's the problem of my setting?

my OS is XP sp2, foobar 0.9.5.2 and the latest Column UI

i found a glitch in the newest version 0.3 beta 2 preview 4

when using $tab the first column isn't to the very left it looks like there is a space inserted. only when there is something displayed in the second column. see picture for details

i drew a small red rectangle over the section where it happens.

here is the code i use for the second, third and fourth line:

Yes it would be a nice touch

I will add some options at some point.

Maybe play count related? I think with current grouping implementation that would happen if the first track in a group was modified.

This must have been there since forever But it's more noticeable in NG Playlist for some reasons. It should be corrected in next build, thanks.

I thought it was intended. I like it (or more "liked it" before I added the album art column and the tab went to not noticable). If you could add a setting in some way to decide space or no space i think it should be appreciated. But only if it's not to much of a hassle.

He's talking about the extra indentation on the 3rd/4th lines with a tab character after the first section of text - that's not intended. Those lines are shifted a bit to the right.

Ah, I see ^^
Good

Can someone explain some of the filter behavior to me?

Here's what I want to do:

1. Browse to an album using three filter panes (genre/artist/album)
2. Play the album
3. Browse to another album
4. Add this new album to the playlist where the previous album is playing

This is a pretty simple use case. For some reason this is not easy to accomplish without dragging via the mouse?

I can easily browse to an album and play it. The album is automatically sent to the "Filter Results (Playback)" playlist and is played. When I browse to another album, I see the results of the browsing in the "Filter Results" playlist. Now, how do I quickly add this album to the "Filter Results (Playback)" playlist? When I try to send it to the "autosend playlist" (what is that? I don't see it defined anywhere. is that the same as the "active playlist"?), nothing happens. When I try to add it to the "active playlist", it just gets appended back to the "Filter Results" list (why would this EVER be useful?). The only way I see how to add it is to drag the tracks to the "Filter Results (Playback)" list. Is this the fastest way to do this? Seems like you might want a faster way to do this?

Furthermore, is it possible to change the name of these playlists ("Filter Results" and "Filter Results (Playback)")? I don't like these names.

Been meaning to ask this for a while, actually...

Would it be possible to add an option to CUI's groups that would suppress grouping for groups of size 1, displaying those files as if grouping were turned off?

This way, the result of shuffling a playlist of whole albums would look much better (not to mention it would allow you to see more files at once) since you wouldn't get oodles of one-file groups...

(Even better would be an option to only display a group if it's made up of all files that belong to the group, i.e. if all files of an album are present and accounted for, but that's probably quite awkward to check...)

Just my 0.02 EUR...

Columns UI just crashed foobar for me while navigating the Filter panes. Is there somewhere where I should submit a crash report?

Yes. Here. Use a codebox. Or pastebin.com if you prefer.

I played around with artwork repository front path and came up with this long a** string.

Well my covers are all in these searched places. After caching all of my album arts (actually I scrolled around a bunch of times), it does scroll impressively fast.
Will you implement wild cards support and multiple sources in the future so ppl like me don't have to deal with it with patched work like this?

Also I would like to have system minute and system second available after checking "Make date info available" in global tab.

Well. Thuan, half you are talking to the wrong person.
Because musicmusic have stated that if the cover is in the same folder it uses the same scheme to look for files as DUI (maybe even a function in the SDK?).
The function you are using are for people who use a single folder.

You can "misuse" it to access covers at other places which I used. So it didn't misfire in a way. Beside doing it this way feel faster to me instead of using foobar internal function to look for covers. At least foobar seems to be more responsive when scrolling in playlist with thousands of songs and covers.

I know.
What I meant was that maybe you should talk to the main developers of foobar first as they are the one who "decided" how to search for covers.

But then again, musicmusic promised some improvements on the cover search dialog in columns_ui. So you will probably get what you want.

Can I access global colours/fonts configuration using current SDK (6.2)? I'm talking about Columns UI -> Colours and Fonts preferences page. I would like to add my component to 'Colours -> Element' list (same for Fonts) and then read my colours/fonts configuration from this place.

I will just outline what my current plans are which will hopefully clear a few things up:
-Add support for relative paths (to the media file)
-Add support for wild cards
-Remove the need to specify the file extension
-Make using the foobar2000 reader optional

Regarding multiple sources, is there a reason this is needed other than inconsistent artwork file naming/locations? Can you not pin down an accurate location using metadata (TOTALDISCS, etc.)?

The playlist would have to refresh too often, hence it was left out.

There is an API, but it's not finalised yet, so it's just used internally at the moment. Of course I am glad someone wants to use it, I will finalise it in one of the next few Columns UI releases , thanks.

The concept comes from album list panel. It refers to the playlist that would be used if autosend is enabled when selecting an item.

Active playlist refers to the currently displayed playlist. It doesn't have to be "Filter Results".

That may be the easiest way, yes. You don't say what your prefered method would be (double click?), but possibly some component like foo_utils would add some relevant commands to the context menu.

Not currently. Maybe later.

The current design of the list control used by NG Playlist does not accommodate for variable grouping levels in that manner, and it would require some major changes to support this. I am not planning to do this at the moment, sorry. I also think current group indentation behaviour would conflict with that. Best you can do currently is to try and put in your singles in 'Singles' group(s), or put them on a separate playlist without grouping.

Thank you. I will only have to wait then.

Well, yes in a way. I used to have multi disc album structure like this:
Album name
-Disc 1
--01. title
--...
-Disc 2
--01. title
--...
-...
And cover is stored inside "Album name" folder for single cover albums or if it has multiple covers each cover is inside its correspondent Disc folder.
Some time ago, I changed the structure to what foobar uses in its file path manipulator (either masstagger or fileops or both I can't remember) like this:
Album name
-1.01. title
-...
-2.01.title
-...
Single cover will just go in "Album name" folder but with multi cover multi disc albums I have to use "cover disc %disc%" format.
Now that I think about it I shouldn't have changed that. If you have spare time and implement multiple sources, it will be great as I won't have to fix my library which is a little large. Please give me your answer if you plan not to do this, so I can prepare for it.

Fair enough, I thought it is some thing like this but I asked anyway.

No, I am not planning to add multiple sources.

how long until your next update MM.. it seems like ages

Erh musicmusic can you reconsider? In case, multi disc albums have cover for each disc I still need multiple sources

as TOTALDISCS alone is not enough to check for this case. Adding another metadata to check is ok but well a little ugly.

I have a simple request for musicmusic, not really concerning columns_ui...i hope ot's ok.

Can you put a "Clear" button in the Console Panel like the original Console has?

See? Simple..

OK, let me rephrase that. I am not adding it any time soon. But maybe sometime in the future.

I've recently gone back from DUI to CUI after missing the $rgb function too much. I've also made a new layout, which I'm happy with. One thing though. I have some vinyl rips, singles and short promos that are only a couple of tracks long, and I don't mind displaying the artwork in the artwork column if there's artwork, but for the ones that don't it still displays a space the size of what it would if there was artwork there.

Is there a way around this, or perhaps will it be changed in a future update? Sorry if it's been covered already.

Is there a way to have a "playlist view" bound to one playlist?

For example, I would like to have one playlist view that changes as I navigate around my media library, but another playlist view that is always showing the current playback playlist.

You mean two independent playlist views at the same time? No. The has btw. been asked a couple of postings ago ("norton/total commander like view" with 2 independent playlists)

I use your system time fields in this code here http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....2864&st=50#, and when they update (per hour) it makes my NG Playlist with artworks blink. Is it possible to fix it?

It refreshes the items and groups, but actually it doesn't need to refresh the groups since those fields aren't available there. So, yes it's easily fixable, I'll change it for next build.

If I move the mouse slightly while right clicking, I get the "Add files here" Drag & Drop context menu instead of the normal context menu. Since I never want the Drag & Drop context menu, is there a preference to disable it?

If not, please consider adding a checkbox to disable this in the Columns UI preferences. My only workaround is to use Tweak UI to increase the Drag Sensitivity number of pixels, which is how far you have to move the mouse with a button depressed before the drag action is recognized. Too large a value for the drag sensitivity is annoying when trying to reposition windows by a small amount.

(I had the same problem in foobar2000 v.8. I'm finally upgrading and trying to fix all the old annoyances.)

Thanks in advance.

It doesn't know in advance if artwork exists or not. It's not possible to have it how you want without either having to wait for it to check before displaying anything or having things jump around.

There must be some other underlying problem if you're frequently starting a drag and drop operation whilst trying to right click. Anyway, there are various reasons I won't add such an option.

There is some irony here, because for some reason it wasn't using the system setting. I'll fix that anyway.

That should fix the problem. I suspected that columns UI was ignoring the Drag Sensitivity, but it was hard to tell.

I use a Wacom pen tablet in Mouse mode instead of the regular mouse because it's easier on my arm (I developed severe tendinitis during a career as a computer programmer). You touch the pen to the tablet to simulate a mouse left click, so I tend to hold the pen slightly above the tablet and use a PI Engineering foot pedal programmed to simulate a mouse right click. Since it's hard to hold the pen perfectly steady above the tablet, I sometimes inadvertently invoke the right click drag in columns UI. When this happens, sometimes I get the "Add files here" context menu, other times the mouse cursor changes to the drag cursor and the current selection is duplicated.

There is a right click button on the pen, but I find it impossible to hold the pen steady while pressing it with my index finger. Also my arm get sore quickly if I use a curled finger to press a button; poking buttons with a straight finger is less of a problem.

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Hi,

In the preference panel, under the filter tab, i can't seem to check "auto-send selection to playlist".

Using 0.3 beta 2 preview 4.

Also, is there any way I can use the filter such that it wouldn't create a "Filter Results (Playback)" playlist when I use the filter? I just want it to replace the original playlist...like in facets.. (selecting add to current playlist also seems to create the "filter results (playback)" playlist :X)

Hello,

I think this may be a bug with NG-Playlist:



The scroll down button doesn't appear in my config. and I scroll past the limit of my window, the scroller's tiny bar disappears (like in the picture). Not really a big problem for me, but I thought I'd just highlight it.

That's usually caused by a locked height, or possibly the minimum height of another panel.

Can I lock CUI window size? I'm able to do it in DUI and I want to do it in my CUI too.

Mmm..yeah my setup was as follows:



Unchecking locked for the horizontal splitter worked ~ Thanks!

Then, would it be possible to have an option to disable expansion to minimum height, like it was in preview 2 ? For now I'm stuck with it because I have a bunch of single files (which don't have album art), and no album with album art and only 3 or 4 tracks. So I was very happy with preview 2 behaviour.

And thank you for this great component, for all the time you spend on it and answering to everybody on the forum

hmmm strangely the latest foobar beta 9.5.3 b2 has made the alternating line colours stop working...


running preview 4 of the latest colums using the following

There was an error in the default string a long time ago, seems like you still have the broken one. I guess something changed in the 0.9.5.3 beta 2 title format script parser.

So, just change where it says %_display_index to %_display_index%. Or you may prefer to just replace that bit with just %playlist_number%.

Actually, %playlist_number% appears to be broken. I have a quite simple configuration, just a few basic columns and the playlist sidebar. Now I noticed that %playlist_number% doesn't work anymore. It's the first column in the attached screenshots.

I guess this changed after installing foobar2000 v. 0.9.5.3 beta 2, but I haven't verified that by installing older builds. (I'm using the latest Columns UI, v. 0.3 beta 2 preview 4)

My old reference setup that consists of foobar 0.9.4.5 and Columns UI v. 0.2 doesn't have this problem.

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EDIT

As a test, I reverted to 0.9.5.2 and the problem disappeared.

Oh, you are right, %playlist_index% seems to work. %_display_index% works in NG Playlist (in the style string) - that's why fixing that also worked with regards to the other problem.

Anyway, why are fields being randomly renamed now? This breaks components.

thanks music music
adding %_display_index% fixed the issue > thx
everything looks pretty again

Fields aren't being "randomly renamed". Pre-0.9 version leftovers that have been gone from the official documentation for years are getting removed, especially if they're redundant to %list_index%/%list_total% that are the standard respected by most of current components. If you made your code rely on some of fields that got removed, I can bring them back, but if users' custom title formatting depends on those, I don't think it's really my problem.

Well, it's not so much my code, but the default settings that use it. I don't really see the point of breaking people's formatting strings now for no reason; if it was a major version maybe. This just creates headaches for people who download fcs/fcl/fth etc. settings and find they don't work. These people are exactly the kind of people who don't want to mess around with title formatting strings (!)

It is definitely a rename: %playlist_index% doesn't work in beta 1. The timing is definitely arbitrary. And it may be redundant, but you renamed it rather than removed it (and even then it should have been removed in 0.9).

So, it personally doesn't bother me, I can happily edit my title formatting strings. But I would rather my/your users have a good user experience, rather than a frustrating one.

Looks like playlist_index getting added wasn't intended, thanks for spending your time on comparing old/new version behaviors. If use of those fields is that widespread in circulating configurations, I'll try to mimic the old behavior again in 0.9.5.3.